#literature

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe. ↗

— Dario Fo

#before #conceived #connecting #countries #culture

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

#on-poetry #poet #r-m-engelhardt #writer #writing-life

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#also #anthropology #been #central #field

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#almost #anthropology #become #been #consciousness

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#before #critic #critics #i #i remember

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#deal #examine #fate #finite number #great

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#enjoy #everything #except #how #knew

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#concept #documented #domination #industry #known

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#piece #process #script

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#basketball #developed #early #great #great love